Man charged with assault outside Silverdale restaurant

SILVERDALE - A Bremerton man was charged in Kitsap County District Court with second-degree assault Wednesday for hitting another man, who fell and hit his head on the pavement.

The incident happened at 2:15 a.m. Tuesday in the parking lot of the Mongolian Grill. The 23-year-old told deputies he was leaving the restaurant with other people and exchanged words with the man. The man had made a sarcastic comment, he said, and the Bremerton man said he slapped him with an open hand. He saw the man fall to the ground and try to get back up. The Bremerton man panicked and took off, he said.

Sheriff's deputies arrested him just before noon Wednesday at his Fir Street apartment. He's in the Kitsap County jail in lieu of $35,000 bail.

The victim was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, which wouldn't provide his condition Wednesday evening. Court documents said he had a skull fracture.